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Preti Taneja explores the politics of language and its impact on Indian literature.

Preti Taneja explores Indian translations of Shakespeare and asks what a decision to write in Hindi or English tells us about the politics of language in India.

India's new prime minister, Narendra Modi, makes public speeches in Hindi, continuing his party's long campaign to reduce the cultural significance of English. Opponents argue that Hindi is the language of the Hindu religion, while English, whatever its colonial associations, has crossed the nation's often violent religious and cultural divides. Drawing on Shakespeare's plays and Indian translations of them from recent times - and on writing by Saadat Hasan Manto and Rabindranath Tagore, the voices of partition and independence - Preti Taneja from Jesus College Cambridge explores the power of gibberish to upset fixed notions of language and identity.

Recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival of Ideas at Sage Gateshead 

All the discussions and essays from the Free Thinking festival are available as Radio 3 Arts and Ideas downloads. 

Producer: Georgia Catt.

Free Thinking: 2014 Festival

The Free Thinking Essay

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Events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

Series of events from the 2014 Free Thinking festival. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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Series in which Radio 3 New Generation Thinkers give talks in front of an audience at Sage Gateshead for the 2014 Free Thinking festival of ideas. The theme is 'the limits of knowledge'

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